For my new media technology work i will be researching digital television and digital radio:
Digital television refers to the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by means of discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV
Digital Radio describes radio technologies which carry information as a digital signal.

List of possible research areas:
What is Digital Switchover?
What effect does the digital switchover have on the population?
What effect does it have on businesses?
How will viewing figures be affected?
Will digital television and digital radio have an effect on how companies make their mony?
Will it change the type of entertainment we watch and affect the times of the popular shows?

1 Endism - The belief that something of significant scope and duration, particularly something negative, is coming to an end.
2 Media ecosystem is a term used to describe the relationship between weblogs and traditional journalism.
3 Narrowcasting is the production and distrubtion of material on video tapes, cassettes, etc
4 The web is a computer programming system to implement literate programming
5 Medium is a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
Pull or pull technology refers to requesting data from another program or server.
6 Bloggers can post about whatever they like and can express their opinions on those maters.

What is 'the Fourth Estate'?Is new media technology responsible for the decline in newspapers?What does it mean "maybe the internet is already the cyberspace of the fourth estate"?

The media itself is fourth estate the most important state. As well as fourth estate there are also three other estates the Courts, Religion and Parliament
New media technologies has had a major effect in the decline of newspapers and will continue to have one for the forseeable future as new media technology improves. For example you can now get wireless internet access on your phone further declining the newspaper industry. Therefore newspapers are having to change the way they present themselves and changing what they offer too move with the times and increase sales. The mass market newspaper has shifted from a populist news agenda to one of gossip allied to a political orientation. They have participated in the rise of celeb culture and have culviated links withTV soaps and 'reality TV, programmes such as Big Brother. It is important for newspapers to devise new ways to keep the public interested in newspaper and therefore continueing sales and keeping themselves in business.draft